EP17 - The Eagle's Empty Nest: Anatomy of a Ladder, a Ransom, and a Spectacle

In 1932, the abduction of Charles Lindbergh's infant son became the "Crime of the Century." But beneath the headlines lay a story of two powerful, competing forces: the birth of modern forensic science and the dawn of the trial by media. We dissect the microscopic evidence that pointed to one man and the media frenzy that convicted him in the public eye long before the jury's verdict.